About the construction of lines in the MS

[quimqu]

Do only the last two EVA characters matter?

no, it’s not just the last two characters.

Endings like -dy, -y, -l, -r do matter, but they are not enough to explain the effect.

If it were only about the last two EVA characters, then all tokens sharing the same ending should behave similarly. But that’s not what we see. The patterns are much more structured and depend on broader families, not just suffixes.

For example, in Biological, line endings tend to look like ol..ly, ol..dy, or..ry, ol..ol, ok..ky, with some qo... tails. Line openings, on the other hand, prefer quite different families like so..dy, so..ey, so..or, so..ol, sa..ar, sa..in, ds..dy, dc..dy, tc..dy.

In Herbal, line endings are enriched in patterns like ..am, ..dy, da..an, da..am, ok..am, ot..am, ch..ry, while openings again show a different structure, like yc..or, yc..ol, yc..ey, so..in, so..or, so..ol, dc..ey, dc..dy, ds..dy, yt..dy, tc..in, ta..ar.

So even when two tokens share the same final characters (like -dy), their behavior depends strongly on the rest of the form and the family they belong to.

Also, the gradient result argues against a purely suffix-based explanation. The "end-likeness" signal increases progressively over several tokens before the line end, not just at the last word.